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Comics & Books: Gweek talks to Duane Swierczynski

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

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Over on the always excellent BoingBoing, Mark Frauenfelder talks to novelist and comics scribe Duane Swierczynski on Gweek about both his prose and graphic storytelling (I’ve really been enjoying his take on Judge Dredd for the new US series from IDW), upcoming work and past inspirations:

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Books: The Clarke Award, a report by our wandering man of letters, James Bacon

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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In the middle of last week the most prestigious awards ceremony celebrating one of our hugely rich strands of literary heritage, British science fiction, took place, mixing discussion of real science, speculation by scientists of The Shape of Things To Come and the crossover between fiction and real science, as well as the awards themselves. [...]

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Great Doctor Who book giveaway…

Saturday, May 4, 2013

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Not by us, but by a group of Doctor Who fans who just happen to have 11,000 Target Doctor Who books, and have a mad idea that they are going to give them away to schools around the country. A mad idea, but also a fantastic idea, designed to spread a love of reading around [...]

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Books: Chris Beckett wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Thursday, May 2, 2013

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Last night in the historic environs of the Royal Society in London the annual Arthur C Clarke Awards, the most prestigious of the UK’s literary science fiction awards, were held. Against stiff competition which included some of the real heavyweights of the genre such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod, the judges decided to [...]

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Books: “It’s all changing” – Neil Gaiman at the London Book Fair

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Neil Gaiman gave a talk at the Digital Minds segment of the London Book Fair, where he told the book trade that when asked his predictions for the future of publishing he simply replied “it’s all changing.” As BoingBoing (whence came the link) notes not everyone in the book trade audience was happy about what [...]

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Books: the Arthur C Clarke Award nominees

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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The final six shortlisted nominees for the UK’s most prestigious science fiction literature award, the Arthur C Clarke Awards, have been announced: Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose) Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann) The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (Headline) Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit) 2312 by Kim Stanley [...]

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Books: Iain Banks ill

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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Very upsetting news announced today: one of our best (and bestselling) science fiction writers, Iain Banks, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer (BBC article here). I’m pretty shell-shocked at this news, as I imagine many thousands of readers will be, and I can’t imagine what is going on in the mind [...]

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Film: Kickstarter for Bill the Galactic Hero

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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Michael Owen Carroll was kind enough to point me to a Kickstarter running for a new film project by cult director Alex Cox (always interesting work like Sid & Nancy, the superb Repo Man and the often under-rated Highway Patrolman). What’s better than the idea of new movie work from Alex Cox? Alex Cox doing [...]

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Science Fiction: Mechalarum Kickstarter

Friday, March 29, 2013

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Emma Larkins is a New York based writer currently running a Kickstarter to help fund her new science fiction novel Mechalarum, which sees a heroine donning a flying cyber-suit for a dangerous mission, and she’s even been out in a model of the costume from the book to raise interest (extra geek points for public [...]

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Books: James Herbert, RIP

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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Some very sad news breaking this evening via the BBC: the bestselling author James Herbert has passed away at the age of 69, just as his latest book has been released in paperback. I’m quite shocked at the how suddenly we seem to have lost James – 69 is not particularly old these days and [...]

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